Quotes About Migration

Europe's Sikh community outside Britain scarcely exists. During 1993 there was some unrest in a district of Belgium to which Sikhs had gone to take part in harvesting as casual labourers. At times of high unemployment, there are always possibilities of non-whites being accused of job stealing. These often diminish when a group becomes established. Meanwhile Sikhs are sometimes deterred from migrating to areas where none has been previously.

India is a country that cannot afford to employ all the doctors it trains, which explains why some of them have migrated to Europe or America. It depends on volunteers and voluntary contributions to make up for services that the government cannot afford to provide. Sikhs do this by setting up clinics or dispensaries and day wards at gurdwaras. Here, medical care is given free of charge and minor operations can be performed.

We are the second oldest state in the Union because too many of our young people are leaving Pennsylvania. They are leaving Pennsylvania behind for opportunities elsewhere.

Urbanization in India is a slow but sure death for her villages and villagers.

Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open.

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

You got away from Palestine and the homeland. You got away from Brookline and the relatives. You got away from New York

Since 1607, when the first English settlers reached the New World, over 42 million people have migrated to the United States.

There is symbolic as well as actual beauty in the migration of the birds, the ebb and flow of the tides, the folded bud ready for the spring. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature - the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after the winter.

Whatever the vexations or concerns of their personal lives, their thoughts can find paths that lead to inner contentment and to renewed excitement in living. Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is symbolic as well as actual beauty in the migration of the birds, the ebb and flow of the tides, the folded bud ready for the spring.

Some, perhaps, would fall by the way. Some, old or sick, would drop out of the caravan and creep away into a solitary place to die; others would be picked off by gunners, defying the law for the fancied pleasure of stopping in full flight a brave and fiercely burning life; still others, perhaps, would fall in exhaustion into the sea...In them burned one more the fever of migration, consuming with its fires all other desires and passions.

The first people settled there along the Santa Cruz River about twelve thousand years

Most of the people I write about have been ambitious outlanders who have been attracted to New York from other parts of the world.

We will seek... to set up an automatic, obligatory system to redistribute asylum-seekers.

I have always dreamed of working in the U.S.

Before we kill Schengen, we have to make Dublin work.

My family's from Eastern Europe.

I'd known since about eleven that I wanted to live in America.

When I am in Africa, I always have the feeling that it's where everything started. When I am in New York, I know it is where everything ended up.

Work aside, I think would have ended up in the U.S. because I like being here a lot. I really do.

I left my country because I was forced to, and I do not think that I am going to lose my language because I live in England.

In Gujarat, they may not have enough people to do menial jobs and so they need people from U.P. and Bihar. But in Maharashtra, we have enough people who need jobs.

Freedom of establishment is the freedom to work in all of Europe.

Tomamos lo que nos conviene: lo que el Creador ha puesto en este mundo no es propiedad de nadie, los frutos de la tierra pertenecen a todos los hombres y, si no nos gusta un lugar, nos marchamos a otro.